All the Rage Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

Darcy Lockman, Abby Craden

eAudio - 2019

Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data show that one area of gender inequality stubbornly remains: the unequal amount of parental work that falls on women, no matter their class or professional status. All the Rage investigates the cause of this pervasive inequity to answer why, in households where both parents work full-time, mothers' contributions—even those women who earn more than their partners—still outweigh fathers' when ...it comes to raising children and maintaining a home. How can this be? How, in a culture that has studied and lauded the benefits of fathers' being active, present partners in child-rearing—benefits that... more